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Slow Worm It's neither a worm, nor a snake, but a lizard. Anguis fragilis,Bulgaria,Geotagged,Slow Worm Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Slow Worm

It's neither a worm, nor a snake, but a lizard.

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    Ludo Sak
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    Hiya WildFlower!
    I trotted on one of them a few years ago, I was walking abroad (can't remember where, france maybe?) in a dense wood on a sunny patch of road. I did see it, yet I thought it was a branch, no harm not avoiding it. It scared the snake out of me, it flipping upwards on both sides. I screamed. A lot. My wife did laugh about it for quite some time, me degrading on the hero scale a bit:)
    Ludo


     Posted 12 years ago
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      WildFlower
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      That's an interesting story, Ludo. It only comes to prove that one can never be too cautious when walking outdoors :) Posted 12 years ago
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        Ahum, yes, I am quite a hero:) Big ego though:) Posted 12 years ago

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The Slow worm

''Anguis fragilis'', or slow worm, slow-worm or slowworm, is a limbless reptile native to Eurasia. It is also sometimes referred to as the blindworm or blind worm, though the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds considers this to be incorrect.

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Similar species: Snakes And Lizards
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Uploaded Mar 2, 2013. Captured May 21, 2012 10:51 in ulitsa "Stefan Stambolov", 1444 Bistritsa, Bulgaria.
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  • Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
  • f/4.5
  • 1/202s
  • ISO100
  • 19.944mm